LOL! not even a real Shelby as my buddy has one. I sold my vette about 10 years ago, I bought it when I was 17 for 3500.00 and it needed paint. I got a lot more than that out of it when I was 30...lol! There was a reason that the speedo went to 200mph on it.

I only owned 1 Ford and that was my 34 5 window coupe all metal body with 48merc 59AB flathead in it punched out with big cam and tri-power. I loved that car, but again had near nothing invested in it and got a bunch of money out of it. I have owned two 50's camaro's with big block 4-speeds, 73 Nova SS, and that was before I was 20. My dad owned a service station and wrecker service so we used to come across a lot of good deals. I had the Nova and the Vette for the longest time. I sold the others to buy other cars. The last car I owned was a 70 Buick Stage1 with the 455 automatic and the engine was really hopped up and honestly is the only car that I have ever owned that would break loose the rear tires when it shifted from 2nd to 3rd...lol! it was torque monster. If you put an aluminum intake and headers on the 455 buick they are 85 lbs lighter than a SB chevy with more HP and twice the torque. THey are FUN! I like my fords to, but wheever I see that I always have to give the guy crap....lol!

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That Buick sounds like it would get me in a lot of trouble.....its all in good fun! I find a lot of car guys take it too seriously! Good seein one that's like me and takes it all with a grain of salt!

To old and had to many fast cars and know all brands have had their own really fast ones to get upset about what brand it was...lol!

I forgot that I had a 69 Cuda with a 440magnum in it with fender well headers and auto and small torque converter and that thing....WHEW! had the 6-pack hood and weighed nearly nothing. When it would kook up it would pull both front tires off the ground about the height of a pack of cigs the tall way. That thing......I am surprised I didn;t kill myself or anyone else at 16-17 yrs old...lol! A new set of 50's on the back and a rebuilt or junkyard tranny about once a month was a must....lol!

My dad HATED that car....he was happy to see it go and now that I look back, I was too...lol! I will try to post some pics, I need to scan them though. I did used to race Karts with a yamaha 100cc engine that did over 100mph and then moved up to a street stock stock car and then limited late model and quit doing that in 96 when my son was a year old. It was just more fun hanging out with him.

This looks like my Cuda, but mine was red with a black stripe on each side that said 440 at the back cut out of the black, so it was red.

This was my sons first car, it came from Florida and had 60K on it 1993 (last year of the Fox body)